A Thing With Feathers - Part 2 Of A Series On Hope (And The Search For It)
Finding a starting place to write about anything, let alone hope and how to gather a greater sense of it when your words have run dry is...
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shaelyritchey
Oct 8, 20221 min read
Lessons from Orb Weavers
How can I too, hold a seemingly intangible design of something more in my tattered mind? buffeted by the wind, how do I know where to...
shaelyritchey
Sep 10, 20225 min read
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day: Let's Talk About High-Functioning Depression
Please note that I have written this piece on a mix of hard days and easier days over the past while. It is true, but it is also written...
shaelyritchey
Aug 5, 20221 min read
Angst Articulate
One of the best essays I have ever come across is Leslie Jamison’s “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain” (in her book, “The Empathy...
shaelyritchey
Jul 30, 20223 min read
Dependency on Treatment & Eating Disorders - An Explorative Discussion
(Originally posted on Vancouver Island Voices for Eating Disorders blog.) When individuals with eating disorders have cycled through...
shaelyritchey
Jul 29, 20223 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - July 2022
What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of July... Oh if I could only show you the hidden cost of being...
shaelyritchey
Jun 8, 202219 min read
Life-Saving & Sometimes Disabling - Exploring the Impacts of ED Treatment on Self-Capacity/Trust
It is important to reflect on where different eating disorder therapies and programs perpetuate the struggle for individuals to practice...
shaelyritchey
Jun 3, 20222 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - May 2022
What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of May... No matter the seeming strength of my voice, when it is...
shaelyritchey
May 21, 20223 min read
What is "Recovery?"
What is "recovery?" How can one be "recovery" oriented? How do we define this process? Who gets to define this process? Is there more...
shaelyritchey
May 4, 20221 min read
May The Fourth Be With Us - Eating Disorder Advocacy At The B.C. Legislature
Today I look to the resilience and persistence of camas blooms for inspiration. I learn from the years they take to bloom, that change...
shaelyritchey
Apr 28, 20221 min read
Performative "Wokeness"
An important reflection point for professionals working in the eating disorder field... How well does your online appearance of...
shaelyritchey
Apr 13, 20223 min read
37 Days
In February, there is only a hint of what will be. A damp chill still hangs in the air. lurking in the shadows, but there's a hint of...
shaelyritchey
Mar 28, 20226 min read
Transforming Moments of Pain, to Peace - Reclaiming My Authorship Project
I've written before about reclaiming authorship and the power of language, largely through advocating for collaborative treatment in my...
shaelyritchey
Mar 11, 20222 min read
Old Wounds
I do not typically speak to specifics in my own healing journey at present. My fear is negatively impacting others or unintentionally...
shaelyritchey
Mar 11, 20222 min read
The Space Between
Healing lies in the space between the initial thought, urge, impulse, or behaviour of the eating disorder, and our healthy selves....
shaelyritchey
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - February
What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of February… Trust is something that is earned, not something...
shaelyritchey
Feb 28, 20224 min read
You Are Loved
I wrote this piece with a particular person in mind. It was originally published on the Looking Glass blog There is a place I go when I...
shaelyritchey
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Lessons From Each Month of the Year - January
What I have learned (unlearned, or may still be learning) from the month of January... Life still clings to stark places. The real spring...
shaelyritchey
Jan 15, 20226 min read
"Chronic" - An Exploration of the Harmful Effects of Labels & Language
This is an older blog post I wrote that I have gone back through and updated/adjusted as my understanding and view of things has changed....
shaelyritchey
Jan 8, 20226 min read
A Sanctuary Held in My Mind
The following is an adapted version of an advanced Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skill called "safe space visualization." This...
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